How To Use Lotus Notes To Make Your Screen Go Black
- Find or create a Lotus Notes calendar application that doesn't validate an appointment's end time to make sure that it is later than the start time.
- Create and save an appointment with a meeting end time that is earlier than the start time.
- Switch to a monthly calendar view in the Notes application that is currently formatted as "Month".
- Make sure that under "Formatting", "Summarize" isn't checked.
- In the monthly calendar view, select the day with the appointment.
- Switch the calendar formatting to "Day".
Result:
The screen goes completely black. If you are running Lotus Notes in one window of a two-monitor setup, both monitors will go black. You will have to use Task Manager to recover.
Why this happens:
If a day view isn't summarized, then it graphically displays the start and end times of meetings and appointments. If the start time is after the end time, Notes can't resolve what to display and graphic death is the result.
Final thought:
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